Cuba Changes Ministers For Tourism, Investment

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August 29, 1999

HAVANA - Cuba on Saturday announced the replacement of its ministers for tourism and foreign investment - key posts in the bid to bring capital into the communist-run island - without any official explanation for the change. A three-paragraph statement in the ruling Communist Party's daily Granma said Tourism Minister Osmany Cienfuegos, brother of deceased revolutionary hero Camilo Cienfuegos, would be assigned ``other responsibilities.'' Foreign Investment Minister Ibrahim Ferradaz, who has been central to Cuba's opening to foreign investment, was moved to the tourism post. Ferradaz's post will be taken by Vice-Minister of Foreign Investment Marta Lomas Morales.